Quotes About Growth

I think the Indian AI ecosystem is growing rapidly. A lot of Indian entrepreneurs reach out to me seeking feedback about startups and products. And some of them have very interesting business ideas.

My prior stint at 'Newsweek' was a very different world. So it's what it's like to be in one of these kooky software startups as a grown up. It's not entirely pleasant! It's like, 'Oh, I don't fit.'

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.

We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

Collaborating with startups and other technology companies can be very beneficial because it broadens the scope of services we offer to clients while allowing us to serve clients together.

Quality and a great product matters, in startups, and in accelerators.

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.